Early 20th century figures like Kaiser Wilhelm, Tsar Nicholas, and King George V seem to be relatively unexplored in cinema. Would you watch a film about any of these guys? If not is there anyone you'd prefer specifically?
Would you watch a biopic about the life of Kaiser Wilhelm II?
Elijah Rivera
Austin Hall
Not if Idris Elba isn't cast as the Kaiser. But to be serious I can't imagine a decent film being made about him without turning him into some cartoonish buffoon with typical German stereotypes like how supposedly all Germans speak really, really, loud when they talk because normies introduction to the German language is Hitler videos.
Isaiah Wood
wilhelm was the original 30 year old boomer
Julian Green
I think cinema is very much capable of depicting these guys as human characters. Take a look at Downfall for example. People would have much less of an agenda in creating such films as there's not nearly as much baggage with guys like Willy. I just don't think there'd be enough of an interest to create a big budget film about these guys.
Jace Rogers
Yea, but it's the "band movie" problem. These people did so much, it would be really hard to make a good movie about them that isn't just a quick summary of their lives.
Cooper Reed
I think a miniseries would probably work best.
Jackson Watson
Christopher Plummer was great in this.
Christopher Allen
Put Michael Fassbender in the lead and I'm in
Juan Miller
Look into his birth and early childhood. Serial killer stuff right there.
GET BACK ON THE HORSE.
Logan Ross
Fassbender should play Ernst Junger in the B-plot
Colton Phillips
Some kind of movie or miniseries starting after the assassination of the Kaiser and ending at the outbreak of WW1 would be pretty cool.
Isaac Bell
Downfall was truly a great movie and it's amazing it even exist especially considering it comes from Germany. I'm just trying to say that in today's political climate a film about the Kaiser will be overly biased against him instead of placing him in his time in context. But who knows, i'd be glad to be wrong and I can already visualize what a good Kaiser Wilhelm movie could be like, like 'The Last Emperor' or 'Downfall'.
Joseph Phillips
>Wilhelm's most damaging personal blunder cost him much of his prestige and power and had a far greater impact in Germany than overseas.[48] The Daily Telegraph Affair of 1908 involved the publication in Germany of an interview with a British daily newspaper that included wild statements and diplomatically damaging remarks. Wilhelm had seen the interview as an opportunity to promote his views and ideas on Anglo-German friendship, but due to his emotional outbursts during the course of the interview, he ended up further alienating not only the British, but also the French, Russians, and Japanese. He implied, among other things, that the Germans cared nothing for the British; that the French and Russians had attempted to incite Germany to intervene in the Second Boer War; and that the German naval buildup was targeted against the Japanese, not Britain. One memorable quotation from the interview was, "You English are mad, mad, mad as March hares."[49] The effect in Germany was quite significant, with serious calls for his abdication. Wilhelm kept a very low profile for many months after the Daily Telegraph fiasco, but later exacted his revenge by forcing the resignation of the chancellor, Prince Bülow, who had abandoned the Emperor to public scorn by not having the transcript edited before its German publication.[50][51] The Daily Telegraph crisis deeply wounded Wilhelm's previously unimpaired self-confidence, and he soon suffered a severe bout of depression from which he never fully recovered. He lost much of the influence he had previously exercised in domestic and foreign policy.[52]
literally /ourguy/
Juan Rivera
I would but I think one focusing on Bismarck would be better
Andrew King
>in today's political climate a film about the Kaiser will be overly biased against him
Honestly I really don't think so. The average normie knows Hitler bad but most people don't even know much about Kaiser WIlhelm if they even know who he is at all. It would lend itself much better to a more accurate portrayal. Still though I'd prefer it be made outside of Hollywood
Aiden Myers
FUCK kaiser shithelm
this post was created by Ludendorff Gang
Nolan Bailey
How rude
Thomas Allen
No. Historical biopics tend to suck because the media is simply not design to fit with all types of stories and narratives, and the fact that a period film would require a big budget means it would receive a lot of pressure to force everything into certain structures and archetypes in order to be a box office hit, and that would make the movie basically fiction.
It's about time you /his/ retards realize that if you want to get more into figure X or historical epoch Y you need to stop skimming the wikipedia articles and read a proper book.
Isaiah Nguyen
I don't want a movie on Kaiser Wilhelm because I'm too lazy to read a book you autist I just really wanna see that time period and characters brought to life on the big screen.
Lincoln White
>I don't want a movie on Kaiser Wilhelm because I'm too lazy to read a book you autist
Yeah? Name three books.
Christopher Bell
The Guns of August
Birdsong
Storm of Steel
What is it you're trying to do here exactly?
Parker Barnes
Blue Max with James Mason and Ursula Andress
Doesn't quite do it and goes nowhere near the Kaiser but is "in the period." And it's a good movie.
Benjamin Murphy
thanks
Isaac Smith
based
Joseph Smith
Add 'Iron Kingdom' and 'Kaiser Wilhelm ll: A life in power' by Christopher Clark to that list